Chapter 16

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​‌​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌​​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌​​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌⁠Whackum. My dear rogues, dear boys, Bluster and Dingboy! you

are the bravest fellows that ever scoured yet!—SHADWELL:

Scourers.

Cato, the Thessalian, was wont to say that some things may be

done unjustly, that many things may be done justly.—LORD BACON

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​‌​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌​​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌​​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌⁠(being a justification of every rascality).

Although our three worthies had taken unto themselves a splendid lodging in Milsom Street, which, to please N